Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall …

This is a follow-on from the idea about the Forces of Light and Darkness, and I have to give major credit to my friend Mace Rosen for this insight … thank you Mace for your random thoughts …

Basically, when you make a list of “constructive forces” in society and “destructive forces”, it is quite astonishing to see that maybe 90% or even more of the time, constructive forces tend to take a long, long time to do their work, while destructive forces often operate in a much shorter timeframe.  One sobering thought along these lines is that it takes 20 years of endless effort to raise a child to adulthood, and an unfortunate bullet fired in a fraction of a second to end those 20 years of work.  You can think of many more analogies, including our dear friend Humpty Dumpty cheerfully sitting on the wall above.

So this is perhaps another reason why, in relation to the question Sholeh posed, it can be hard to remain optimistic in times when a lot of forces are operating in both directions, because it seems you have the law of time working against you when you try to align with the forces of progress.  With Humpty falling off the wall so often, and all the kings horses and all the kings men so stressed out trying to put his poor IKEA made parts back together again, its hard to maintain that cheerful Humpty smile.   Unless Humpty was hard-boiled, maybe that is the secret.